2 Electronic communication of authenticated copies of Public Records
1 Section 9 of the Public Records Act 1958 (legal validity of public records and authenticated copies) shall be amended as follows.
1958 c. 51.
2 The words in subsection (2) from “In this subsection” to the end shall be re-numbered as subsection (4), and in that subsection for “In this subsection the reference” there shall be substituted “In this section any reference”.
3 After subsection (2) there shall be inserted the following subsection:—

“3 An electronic copy of or extract from a public record in the Public Record Office which—
(a) purports to have been examined and certified as true and authentic by the proper officer; and
(b) appears on a website purporting to be one maintained by or on behalf of the Public Record Office,;
shall, when viewed on that website, be admissible as evidence in any proceedings without further or other proof if the original record would have been admissible as evidence in those proceedings.”

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